Secret Pimento Cheese Recipe! Hilah Cooking
- Hey dudes.I'm Hilah and today on
Hilah Cooking I am making pimento cheese.
This is a recipe that's actuallyin my cookbook but I never
thought that anyone would wantto see a video about it but then
I did the video last week,"Getting High and Eatin' Chips"
and I mentioned pimento cheeseand like every comment was like
"I want to see thatrecipe," so here you go.
Don't ever say I never give you anything.
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As the name suggestspimento cheese has cheese in it.
I like sharp cheddar.
I'm gonna start grading that up.
Some recipes use American cheeseand as much as I love
American cheese, I really prefer sharp cheddar in this.
Mild cheddar is pretty good too
but I like strong flavors.
I like my flavorslike a like my men.
So, I'm gonna grate this by hand.
I'm not gonna use pre-shreddedkind because again I feel like
the texture of the finished pimento cheese is
way better if you do it by hand.
It's a pain in the nuts.
It's my least favorite thing todo grating cheese but I'm gonna
do it for you and for myselfbecause I haven't made
pimento cheese in quite a while
and I'm really excited about this.
Here's how you grate cheese.
Don't grate yourfingers, rule number one.
Okay, some for the chef.
Not really a chef, sowe've got our cheese grated.
Now traditionally pimento cheese
is like pimentos, cheeseand mayonnaise.
I like to use cream cheese asmy base so I've got some
cream cheese here that's been sitting out for little.
It's gotten kind of soft.
Kinda mash that up.
And then, I've got a whole,whole lot of cheese here.
I don't really know, pretty sure
this was probably invented in the South.
I don't really know why but maybe to make cheese go further
'cause you're kind ofdiluting it with mayonnaise.
You can buy it in the store like
in the cheese section in little plastic tubs.
To me, like all the store-boughtpimento cheeses I've ever had
are too sweet likethey actually add sugar.
Not into that.
So, just gonna startmashing this together.
This is really good like pimentocheese sandwiches are a classic.
Pimento cheese on celery sticksor carrot sticks if you're trying
to be little more healthy andthen lately been seeing like
pimento cheese on burgersand stuff at restaurants.
Pimento cheesegrilled cheese, super good.
Alright, that's a littlecombined but I'm gonna add a
couple tablespoons of mustard.
I like to use a grainy deli mustard
such as Grey Poupon.
Man, I miss those commercials.
And I'm gonna add alittle bit of mayonnaise.
I don't think this is enough to put anyone off
if you're a mayonnaise hater.
It's only a tablespoon and it'sreally just a kind of loosen the
mixture up a little bit.
Like my pimento cheeseloose like I like my women.
Now once that's all combined,it's time for the fun part.
So, pimentos, you've probablyseen these, maybe you haven't.
Maybe these are new to you.
They're in the canned vegetable aisle.
If you have seen themmaybe you're like,
"What the hell am I supposed to do with those?
"They look weird and boring," and
they are kind of both of those things.
But I'm gonna drain theliquid off over here real quick.
They're a type of red pepper.
They're sweet pepper.
They're similar really to like aroasted red bell pepper that you
get in a jar but milder I think.
They're not quite such redbell pepper flavor to me.
Like roasted red bell peppercan be a little too strong.
And then my other secretingredients that I like to add
of course are somepickled jalapeños.
These are just like...
And then, I add a couple of peppadews
which are sort of a sweet.
The more fancy grocery store that has an olive bar,
you can buy them there.
And I'm just dice all theseup so they're really small.
Sometimes I liketo add capers too.
Capers are really good or even
you can add like diced up dill pickles.
I like adding somethingkinda pickled to add a little of
tartness because it can beobviously it's really rich
with all this diarythat's going on.
Nice, and then, I saved a couple
tablespoons of thepickled jalapeño juice.
I'm gonna add that to again for
vinegary-ness and for a little bit of liquid
just to make thismore spreadable and
sort of dippable consistency.
Okay, once it's all mixedup you're ready to eat it.
You can put it on a sandwich,you can put it on a burger,
I did a jalapeño baconcheeseburger video a while back
that this would be likeso ridiculously good on.
Again, also check out the"Getting High and Eatin' Chips"
video where you can find outhow we got started talking about
pimento cheese at all.
Let's give it a taste,gonna put it on a Triscuit.
Triscuits are myfavorite crackers.
So good, I'm like praying which
is like totally not like me at all.
Thank you so much for watching.
Remember the recipes are alwaysavailable at HilahCooking.com
and if you want to check on mycookbook, it's on Amazon and
also at my websiteI'll put a link to that.
Don't forget to subscribe and
I will see you next week with more cooking videos.
Bye!
Just gonna goahead and eat this.
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